You have an answer for everything. You really think somebody worth $100 million can't venture on his own and start his own brand. You sound silly.
Here's a non-tech company: BlueNile.com, founded in 1999 by an Seattle investment banker. BlueNile passed $400 Million in revenue last year, has a $500 Million market cap, trades at $40.00 a share and now is the largest online retailer of diamonds. The man who started the company was rich but, he wasn't Kanye West rich.
http://www.bluenile.com
http://www.google.com/finance?cid=694892
Now watch you say how that's different
Zappos.com is another example. Online shoe retailer. Tony Hsieh invested $1.6 million in the company when it was in its infancy back in 2000. By 2009, the company passed $1 billion in sales and became the leading shoe retailer online. Amazon purchased the company for $1.2 billion in July 2009. That dude Tony Hsieh made $214 million from the sale, from an investment of $1.6 million.
Kanye has millions of dollars. Millions, B. He can start his own brand![]()
Props for the research but those are outliers.